Tailpiece update

[drbassman]

Cool! I'm excited to get them. They'll look great, no matter what project I use them for. 

Well, I can't wait either!  This has been like waiting for your pregnant wife to give birth!    I feel like labor has finally started and we're in the delivery room at last!  Whew!!!!!!!!!!!

[drbassman]

The tailpieces have landed!!!!!  They are finished and my son and I will be picking them up at the shop this afternoon.  I'll post some pictures when we get them home and start shipping out Thursday (my son goes back to college on Wednesday, so I'm a bit booked up right now!)

Oh yeah!!!!

[Bass VI]

One word...........Cool

[godofthunder]

 Sweet !

[Barklessdog]

 A Dawson Bridge and a Bassman tail piece would of looked sweet on my Blueshawk.

[drbassman]

A Dawson Bridge and a Bassman tail piece would of looked sweet on my Blueshawk.

I agree!

[drbassman]

Well, Murphy has a way of intruding on our serenity.  We went to pick up the pieces yesterday and found out the plater has to redo them.  Seems one of goof ups in his shop wrapped our newly plated pieces in bubble wrap right after they were plated.  The wrap reacted with the new nickel and left little circles all over the pieces.  Duh!    I learned that freshly plated parts should ALWAYS be wrapped in paper!  So, the plater is redoing them today and wrapping them properly.  Since it was his shop's screw up, he promised them today so it'll be interesting to see if he comes through. 

You can bet that I'll be sending them out wrapped in paper first!!!!!

Also, please let me know if your address has changed recently as I will use whatever I have from your payment info.  Thanks!

[Barklessdog]

Plating places would be fun place to work. Did you go in where they do the plating?

When I went to one near us it was the dirtiest most noxious place I have ever been. All the huge tubs of stinky chemicals, people in rubber aprons. The smell nearly knocked me off my feet

[drbassman]

I didn't go to the plater's, my machinist sends it over for me.  I agree, they are really unreal places. His comment was that they all are messed up over there from breathing all that stuff in for years.  It's no wonder one of them forgot how to wrap finished pieces!

[Dave W]

Chromium, cadmium, chlorinated solvent vapor degreasers, cyanide baths...just another day at a metal plating shop.

[OldManC]

When I was 15 I worked in the foundry of a company that made wheels for amusement park rides like they have at Disneyland, Knott's Berry Farm and Magic Mountain. To be honest, I still don't think I've recovered from that 6 week stretch...

[drbassman]

Yep, very toxic places!  No wonder Uwe is so anti-chrome! 

I talk to Bill and the parts are finished again, so I'll get them tomorrow.  Finally!!!!!!

[uwe]

I had a similar experience to George - I worked with asbestos in the late seventies for a couple of weeks earning some money during summer vacation. The powder was all over me in the evening, there was no breathing protection or anything, it was seen as a splendid, easy to handle material at the time ...

I'm utterly unworried about asbestos contamination since then ... whatever I needed, I already got back then!

Uwe

[drbassman]

My apologies to everyone, the tailpieces have been done since Friday and my guy hasn't been able to pick them up!  If he doesn't show up with them tonight, I'm gonna ask him where the plater is located and go myself.  Not a big deal. Thanks in advance for all of your patience through this.  It's been much more of a struggle than I had ever anticipated.  Don't think I'll ever try this again!

Bill

[godofthunder]

 I know how you feel Bill, getting the bridges made was not easy, nothing ever is. People ask me why I don't make a brideg for this or that and I just sigh.